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Promoting Literacy and a Love of Reading by Collecting and Donating over 25,000 Books
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In this episode of The S-Files, we are exploring the service done by Analena Peterson, who was one of the honorees recognized as Volunteer of the Year at the 2025 Governor’s Service Awards. Analena discusses how after struggling with reading when she was a younger student, Analena came to love reading and wanted to provide books for other children to help them develop their own passion for reading. She describes how her volunteer efforts grew from donating books to local Little Free Libraries and a few nonprofit organizations to collecting, sorting, and donating over 25,000 books and opening up more than twenty of her own Little Free Libraries across Wisconsin and in a few other states before graduating high school this May. Analena also discusses her volunteering to assist numerous non-literary collection drives by the Volunteer Center of Washington County and other organizations and creating her own nonprofit organization to help her continue to open more Little Free Libraries. Listen to learn about how the connections Analena has made through participating in pageants has expanded her ability to open up more Little Free Libraries across Wisconsin and how she plans to continue her volunteer efforts in the future as she is preparing to start college this fall and be a student athlete running track while still making a difference for others.
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